dock-and

Updated: May 4, 2025

Above these, forming the top stratum of "poor," comes a large class, numbering 129,000, or 14½ per cent., dependent upon small regular earnings of from 18s. to 21s., including many dock-and water-side labourers, factory and warehouse hands, car-men, messengers, porters, &c.

J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson - Problems of Poverty